It's giveaway time!!--UPDATE

***9 HOURS LEFT TO ENTER THE RAFFLE!! TAKE 2 MINUTES AND SEE HOW YOU CAN HELP BE A PART OF REDEEMING THE LIVES OF THE 7000 TRAFFICKED CHILDREN ENSLAVED IN GHANA, AFRICA. IT'S A WIN-WIN SITUATION AND A SUPER EASY WAY TO CHANGE A CHILD'S LIFE TODAY--AND MAYBE WIN SOMETHING FUN FOR YOURSELF! THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ALREADY ENTERED--YOU'RE AWESOME! AND, I GUARANTEE YOUR MONEY WIL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

We've got FIVE AWESOME prizes to give away to FIVE lucky winners--and FOUR ways that you can win!

1. $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO REDBUD DESIGNS



2. GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR MOLLIE B PHOTOGRAPHY (located in the Houston area) FOR A FULL 1-2 HOUR SESSION PLUS A CD OF PRINTABLE
IMAGES FROM YOUR SESSION


3. GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR A FREE 90 MINUTE MASSAGE BY ATHLETIC TRAINING AND MASSAGE SERVICES (houston area only) WORTH $100

3. GIFT CERTIFICATE TO TWELVE20 PHOTOGRAPHY (located in the DFW area) FOR A PHOTOGRAPHY SESSION, A CD OF ALL OF YOUR EDITED IMAGES AND A 11x14 PRINT (WORTH $275)

4. $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO THE VINTAGE PEARL
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All you have to do to enter to win is help rescue some of these child slaves working on Lake Volta in Ghana, Africa. Just head over to Mercy's Project's page--browse around a bit and then make a donation. Any amount--you choose. All the money donated will go towards helping rescue more children and building houses for the children to live in after they are rescued. It's an AWESOME, worthy cause. To read more about what they are doing, check them out on Facebook or on their website.

For every $5 you donate, your name will be entered in a raffle to win one of the four prizes. If you donate $5, you'll be entered once. If you donate $20, you'll be entered 4 times. If you donate $100, you'll be entered 20 times. You get the idea. You can put all of your entries in for one prize or spread them out amongst the five prizes.

When you go to the website, click on the "donate" tab. Enter the amount that you want to donate at the top of the page and then either sign in to your PayPal account or fill in the information on the left side of the page. During the donation process, there will be a place for you to "add special instructions to seller." You must type SPEIGHTS STORIES GIVEAWAY AND THEN THE NAME OF THE PRIZE YOU ARE WANTING TO BE ENTERED TO WIN (ie REDBUD DESIGNS, TWELVE20 PHOTOGRAPHY, ATHLETIC TRAINING AND SPORTS MASSAGE, MOLLIE B PHOTOGRAPHY OR THE VINTAGE PEARL) in the "add special instructions to seller" box to be entered into the giveaway. Then, comment on the blog if you can, letting us know you donated (you don't have to let us know how much, just that you did!), to make sure we don't miss anyone!

Also, because part of what we want to do is raise awareness about Mercy Project and the children enslaved in Ghana, you can get entered 3 additional ways:

1. post about Mercy Project and this giveaway on your blog and then comment, letting us know you posted

2. link to this post as your Facebook status and then comment, letting us know you did it.

3. become a friend of Mercy Project on Facebook and then comment, letting us know you did.

The raffle is open to everyone. Winners will have one week to contact the owner of the business that donated their prize to officially claim their gift certificate.

The contest will be open until Thursday night (8/12) at midnight, CST.  Mercy Project will be randomly selecting FIVE WINNERS on Friday morning (8/13) using Random.org.

So, go ahead and get started!